Skyscraper wrote:

That looks like a nice toy!

Yeah, unfortunately I can't power it up at the moment - this board needs 8pin + 4pin 12V power connectors... and none of my PSU has it.

havli wrote:

New things arrived 😀
Biostar M5ALA

I am a sucker for SS7 and K6-2's (just me thinking really loud)
That board looks really clean and in good shape.

You know that feeling that you don't have enough video cards?

So, from left to right, top to bottom:

• Riva TNT2 M64 32MB (yuck)
• S3 Trio 64 2MB
• Matrox Millennium II 8MB
• ATI 3D Rage IIc 4MB
• S3 Trio64V2/DX 2MB
• Matrox Mystique 2MB (Best image quality I've seen yet out of any video card)
• Orchid Righteous 3D 4MB (it clicks!)
• S3 Virge/DX 4MB
• Matrox Millennium G200 8MB
• Trident TGUI9440 1MB

Yeah... and you know that feeling that you don't have enough 486's?

This was bought from 2 different sellers, and from one of them I was only interested in 6 video cards, and 3 CPUs but the guy sent a lot of extra stuff which was nice 😀

got a coppermine 1100... currently running at 733 fsb 66 because I only have a p3 650 Intel cooler 🤣
it's shows 41ºC for CPU while running the aida stability test, but I'm not sure I can trust this reading.

havli wrote:

Skyscraper wrote:

That looks like a nice toy!

Yeah, unfortunately I can't power it up at the moment - this board needs 8pin + 4pin 12V power connectors... and none of my PSU has it.

use a 4-pin-to-8-pin adapter, or molex-to-8-pin-adapter, seen several, and I own a few. They're handy to have laying around.

The Dell (Latitude C810) I got for a case of beer. Heavy beast, well built, has a nice 1600x1200 15" screen that's better than the one in my new HP EliteBook.

The HP Compaq NC4010 cost me exactly 1€, including a nice suitcase with AC connection and a (supposedly working) Canon BJC-70:

The Dell got a RAM upgrade to 512MB (it's only recognizing 400MB - well enough) and a 80GB HDD I had laying around. It even started up Windows 7 from this drive! Slow as molasses, but it did work! Currently installing Windows 2000 on it.

The HP is a really nice, compact machine. Currently tinkering with Linux Mint Mate, after upgrading to 1 GB RAM. Surprisingly, the system is bottlenecked by the 1.7 GHz Pentium M instead of the RAM. It even ran well enough with only 512MB installed.

EDIT: I do have a spare 1.8 GHz Pentium M. Normally I wouldn't even think about disassembling a complete laptop for 100 MHz more clock speed, but considering the CPU is regularly at 100%, and with my old HP the increase from 1.4 GHz to 1.8 GHz was tremendous - it might even be worth it.

Got this a couple days ago after trying to hunt one down for a couple weeks. (so hard to find these days)
HP p720, 17" (16" viewable) shadow mask. I haven't used a CRT since I was little and oh boy this thing looks great.

Got this at the same time. Haven't used it yet, though. SB16 CT2940 (big image so I'll link it)
http://i.imgur.com/IclOD9O.jpg

And this just came in the mail today. Diamond Monster 3D

devius wrote:

You know that feeling that you don't have enough video cards?

Yeah... Orchid's are build good. The one I sold earlier this year, was in tip top shape.
The other I sold with the card, had some wierd 45 degree scanline issues.
Sold them both to a guy the same age as me, who wanted to build a mid-90's machine.

(For the money, I bought a V3)

Bare drives in a plastic bin in the "warehouse" section of a thrift store over in Irving, TX. That's the price I paid written on top, $2.92 + tax each. Place also had a AT power supply on a shelf and I found a bin with some PC power cords in it. So... set up power supply to a test power strip they have, and connected each one, one by one before buying. I put my ear up to it and heard them spin up, heard the heads park, and then heard em spin down. I haven't tested in an actual machine yet, but they sound functional, no obvious clicky-clicky-clicky hard drive death noises. And none of the motors are exceptionally loud for their age. Probably they work fine.

The price was right. 😀

20GB drives, perfect size for Win98se compatibility, yay!

I have one of those 20GB WD models. It makes a high-pitched noise as soon as it is powered up, and it never wanes. It sounds like cicadas. I can't stand it for very long, so I use the drive to clone fresh installs only.

None of these sound anything like that. It reads like you're describing a hard drive with a very old (Failing) motor in yours.

Got a qpad mk-50 keyboard with red mx switches. Ps/2 connector but comes with a usb adapter if needed. One the cheaper mx switch keyboards.

boxpressed wrote:

I have one of those 20GB WD models. It makes a high-pitched noise as soon as it is powered up, and it never wanes. It sounds like cicadas. I can't stand it for very long, so I use the drive to clone fresh installs only.

A WD Protege 20GB remains the only desktop HDD I've ever seen fail in a system of mine.

Lukeno94 wrote:

boxpressed wrote:

A WD Protege 20GB remains the only desktop HDD I've ever seen fail in a system of mine.

Yeah, this one is on its way to the great platter in the sky. I don't have too many spare IDE drives, so this one will serve until it can't do so anymore. The noise it makes is one of the worst of all the retro motors/fans I have.

Logistics wrote:

I picked up this PCV-W20 which was recently reloaded with a fresh copy of XP, but it crashes for obvious reasons.

Here's an update on that PCV-W20, all poly-modded, the PSU is recapped and the system is up and running again--snappy response and quick loading, now. Couldn't even get past the post screen before as the HDD kept disappearing and reappearing.

I bought these untested boards for ~10 euro, The CPUs are 4x P2 233, they were also ~10 euro, I only bought them for the Golden Orb cooler 😜.

A Gigabyte BX2000 without bloated caps!?, 3x Compaq BX boards, an Intel LX board, and a Shuttle HOT-637 v3.1 LX board

Some recent pickups - a few more sealed Intel 486 overdrive processors to continue rounding out my sealed overdrive collection. Also picked up a rare SL4KL Slot 1 1Ghz PIII processor - haven't seen too many of these around. Lastly, I found a couple of beaten up boxed but new Cooler Master Slot A/SECC1 coolers because... well.. one can never have enough of them I suppose.. 😵

A couple of Geforce256's are on their way as well as a special (well, to me...) Media Vision card I've been trying to find. Pix next week when those arrive.

2 x Cooler Master DP2-5H54 AMD Slot A Heastink & Dual Fan Coolers (New, Open Box)

Intel 486DX4-100 Overdrive Processor (ABOXDX4ODPR100) (SZ959) (NOS) (1995)

Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz Slot 1 (OEM Sealed Packaging) (BX80526H1000256) (SL4KL) (NOS) (2000) 😎

Intel 486DX2-50 Overdrive Processor (Z932) (NOS) (1994)

Artex's posts in this thread are the best 😉

vetz wrote:

Artex's posts in this thread are the best 😉

Hahah! These days I'm buying more baby stuff than computer parts. I can start posting those if you wish....but I would need to devote an entire thread to it... 😜

Hercules Model 112.